Posted on 07/06/2025 8:31:40 AM PDT by DallasBiff
A new study argues that the large majority of American Jews have a deep-seated notion that being Jewish is inextricably bound to being liberal.
That idea took hold after the large waves of Jewish immigration to the US in the late 19th century, according to the study’s author, American history professor Gil Troy.
American Jewish liberalism and association with the Democratic party is showing no signs of abatement, despite many predictions to the contrary since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, according to Troy’s research, which is being published by the Ruderman Family Foundation's Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Folks beat this drum too much here but that doesn’t change this reality
It is what it is
Long ago I had a torrid relationship with a known Jewish political lady in south Florida
I was her forbidden fruit as a southern sort of pirate Deep South lad
She was despite her politic adorable and hot
She was separated in a bad marriage to an older wealthy Jewish man
It was fairly short as things go
We stayed buddies
Birthdays and holiday cards and occasional phone chat
My later life even like her
I tend to remain good with ex lovers and one ex wife
Twenty years ago maybe Bush 2000
She told me how she was compelled to always vote against the Christian right
I asked her well why explain what they’ve done to you?
Silence
Like I’m supposed to just get it
That moment without acrimony chilled everything to this day
It was weird like we knew we were just different worlds despite that immense physical attraction we shared a few months of get togethers
I’ve known many many Jews and there have been moments like that
It just is what it is as that tired cliche goes
“”I call them golden calf Jews.””
I call them Marxists.
Good analogy.
Democrats panic;there’s no accurate polling of Jewish voters
because there are too few Jews in the country
World Israel News ^ | 5/24/24 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 5/26/2024, 1:41:02 PM by Roman_War_Criminal
After tossing Jewish voters overboard to accommodate the Hamas supporters of Dearborn, Michigan, the Democrats are starting to get nervous about the choice they made.
Despite the rollout of the campaign, beginning with Senator Schumer’s floor speech blasting Israel, and various liberal Jewish surrogates, including Rep. Jerry Nadler, vocally opposing the campaign against Hamas, the Democrats did not manage to sell Jews on Biden’s betrayal.
Biden’s declaration that he would stop providing military support to Israel if it continued to pursue Hamas into Rafah touched off a major backlash from donors, like Haim Saban, from celebrities, like Michael Rappaport, who has said he could vote for Trump, and ordinary Jews.
While there’s no accurate polling of Jewish voters because there are too few Jews in much of the country to be captured by conventional polls and polls specifically surveying Jews are usually run by leftist groups, Democrats have suddenly begun to sweat the Jewish vote.
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Talk about an ethnic group doomed to extinction.
Probably contributed to the Nazi party too.
“”OK, so 80% of Jews oppose Mamdani. Majority of Blacks opposed Mamdani. Higher percent of white, non-Jews, voted for Mamdani than Jews. So focusing so much on the Jews is.... weird.””
Not weird at all... if/when you consider “who” is doing the focusing (accusing). It’s pretty typical, in fact, of their ilk. Same cretins that blame orange man bad for everything bad that’s ever happened, that is happening and that ever will happen. It’s how they roll.
Source: Brandeis University
Approximately 1.8 million Jewish adults, just under one-third
of the total Jewish electorate, live in twenty-five congressional districts.
=================================================National Profile of the Jewish Electorate, May 2020
Of the top twenty-five districts by Jewish population, nearly half are in New York — NY10, NY-3, NY-12, NY-17, NY4, NY-9, NY-6, NY-8, and NY11.
The remaining districts with Jewish populations are found in seven states including Florida, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. FL-21 has the greatest number of Jewish adults at 152,000.
With the exception of NJ-4, these districts are represented by Democrats and all but two (NJ-4 and NJ-5) are Democratic-leaning districts.
Hmm... About 70% of American Jews really hate Netanyahu and almost every large American Jewish organization supports a ‘two-state solution’.
Half of American Jews supported some kind of arms embargo on Israel and about a third call the Gaza war ‘genocide’.
...Approximately one-third of respondents agreed with the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, while about half disagreed...
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395477
...The document also shows a moderate but consistent increase in the number of liberal Jews who think Israel’s resonse to the Hamas attack on October 7 was too harsh, from 34% in January to 45% in August...
Curious how much has changed 7 years later. ONE Jew alone - Miriam Adelson - gave Donald Trump over $100 million in a single year last year
Jews or JINOs?
You are right.
Contributors who praise Trump....
Pattern recognition is bigotry. Stop noticing things.
Dennis Prager (devout Jew):
Jews who keep voting Dem today believe they are still voting for Franklin D. Roosevelt every time.
Yes, he and I know FDR sold out the lives of Jews by not allowing the news of the Nazi genocide to interfere with the time of his personal plans about when to enter the war.
Biting the hand that feeds them? Or do they like to get bitten?
Never heard the abbreviation that sounds like RINO.
The Jewish friends and acquaintances I have are almost all of the highest intelligence and ability. Creative, brilliant and completely impressive. Those more average have great hearts. There is only this one small void in their heads thru which liberalism has snuck into their brains and warped them in that one area. Incredibly frustrating. They could have made such great contributions to conservatism if not stymied by a mind virus.
Continued Jewish support for Democrats has always been a head-scratcher for me.
I dimly recall there being three major branches of Jews. I thought I might get some insight if statistics were generated by branch.
I looked it up, and yes there are three major branches. Each has its divisions. It’s confusing and now I wonder if these distinctions have any connection to American politics at all.
It seems that a lot of being Jewish today has more to do with how to live than what to believe. Also, there is a big emphasis on Jewish ethnicity. Either way a lot of emphasis is on “being Jewish.”
Christians have a greater emphasis on doctrine, what to believe. I think the Nicene creed is repeated by all Christians several times a year.
To add to the confusion, there is a group called Jews for Jesus. I assumed that this was some sort of conciliatory group, interfaith dialog, and so on. Certainly, a good cause IMO. As usual, my assumption is wrong. It is theologically more complex. From the website:
“Many Jewish people have never heard that following Jesus is a viable and thriving expression of Jewish life.”
I won’t claim to understand this, but I wish them well.
Just figured it out! Sorry to be slow. Jewish in name only.
Hard to say. From childhood attending my friend’s boz mitzvah, the temple was night and day different than our Catholic church. People chatted at full voice throughout the service. It was a social experience rather than a religious one.
My college roommate slept under our Christmas tree before her wedding, but after that had to keep a Kosher household. But her husband came from a Holocaust family and the memories were still vivid in the 60’s. I was matron at their wedding and was shocked that it counted to smash a flash bulb instead of a wine glass in the ceremony.
University of Chicago was once described as a Baptist school attended by Jewish students taught Communism by atheistic professors. Can’t say on the professors because I can’t remember a single one ever mentioning religion. I did carry around the Communist Manifesto among my schoolbooks. But the student body was more Jewish than Christian. Hillel was probably more popular than Catholic Calvert House. Remember a great debate on which was better - the latke or the hamantash.
As long as you accept Judaism being as much a culture or a heritage as a celebration of a relationship with a deity, then NOT in name only.
Percentages are often confusing. Yet, people toss them around as though they are simple.
People should take the time to be explicit about what constitutes the numerator and what constitutes the denominator.
Got off the Jewish train a long time ago..American jews are anti Christian imo....
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